Pentium Pro Processor Workstation Performance Brief June 1997 Order Number: 242999-003 Pentium® Pro Processor Workstation Performance Brief Information in this document is provided in connection with Intel products. No license, express or implied, by estoppel or otherwise, to any intellectual property rights is granted by this document. Except as provided in Intel's Terms and Conditions of Sale for such products, Intel assumes no liability whatsoever, and Intel disclaims any express or implied warranty, relating to sale and/or use of Intel products including liability or warranties relating to fitness for a particular purpose, merchantability, or infringement of any patent, copyright or other intellectual property right. Intel products are not intended for use in medical, life saving, or life sustaining applications. Intel may make changes to specifications and product descriptions at any time, without notice. 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Prospect IL 60056-7641 or call 1-800-879-4683 or visit Intel’s website at http:\\www.intel.com Copyright © Intel Corporation 1996, 1997. * Third-party brands and names are the property of their respective owners. 2 Pentium® Pro Processor Workstation Performance Brief CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................5 THE INTEL PENTIUM® PRO PROCESSOR.................................................................5 PRODUCT FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS............................................................................6 SPEC............................................................................................................................7 APPLICATION PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS.....................................................12 SYSmark* for Windows NT* ..........................................................................................12 LINPACK* 100x100 Benchmark ....................................................................................14 MicroStation* 95 Performance Benchmark....................................................................15 MSC/NASTRAN* ............................................................................................................16 BCELL* ...........................................................................................................................18 ANSYS*............................................................................................................................20 Parametric Technology Corporation – Pro/ENGINEER*..............................................23 HDL Simulators ...............................................................................................................25 GRAPHICS PERFORMANCE SUMMARY .................................................................27 Viewperf* .........................................................................................................................27 Viewperf CDRS* Viewset ................................................................................................29 Viewperf Design Review* Viewset...................................................................................30 Viewperf Data Explorer* Viewset ...................................................................................32 Advanced Visualizer* Viewset (AWadvs-01) ..................................................................34 Lightscape* Viewset (Light-01) .......................................................................................36 SUMMARY.................................................................................................................37 APPENDIX A — TEST CONFIGURATIONS ..............................................................38 Website References ..........................................................................................................40 3 Pentium® Pro Processor Workstation Performance Brief FIGURES Figure 1. SPECint_base95* Benchmark ...........................................................................9 Figure 2. SPECfp_base95* Benchmark...........................................................................10 Figure 3. SPECint_rate95* ..............................................................................................11 Figure 4. SPECfp_rate95* Benchmark ...........................................................................12 Figure 5. SYSmark* for Windows NT* Benchmark .....................................................14 Figure 6. LINPACK MFLOPS Performance..................................................................15 Figure 7. MicroStation* 95 Performance Benchmark ....................................................16 Figure 8. MSC/NASTRAN* Power Train Vibrational Model Performance..................17 Figure 9. MSC/NASTRAN* Power Train Vibrational Model Performance..................18 Figure 10. MSC/NASTRAN* BCELL* Model Performance ~10000 Degrees of Freedom...........................................................................................................19 Figure 11. MSC/NASTRAN* BCELL* Model Performance ~20000 Degrees of Freedom...........................................................................................................20 Figure 12. ANSYS* LS Performance...............................................................................21 Figure 13. ANSYS* Performance ....................................................................................22 Figure 14. ANSYS* 5.3/Intergraph & ANSYS* 5.2/non-Intel systems...........................23 Figure 15. PTC Pro/ENGINEER* Performance.............................................................25 Figure 16. Raynet-gate and TI-Mult................................................................................26 Figure 17. CPU-Mix and Dmult.......................................................................................27 Figure 18. CDRS* Composite Scores...............................................................................30 Figure 19. Design Review* Composite Scores.................................................................32 Figure 20. Data Explorer* Composite Scores..................................................................33 Figure 21. AWadvs-01 Composite Numbers....................................................................35 Figure 22. Light-01 Composite Scores.............................................................................37 TABLES Table 1. Summary of CDRS* Tests ................................................................................29 Table 2. Summary of Design Review* Tests...................................................................31 Table 3. Summary of Data Explorer* Tests ...................................................................33 Table 4. Summary of Advanced Visualizer* Tests.........................................................35 Table 5. Summary of Lightscape* Tests.........................................................................36 4 Pentium® Pro Processor Workstation Performance Brief INTRODUCTION 1This performance brief compares the performance of Pentium® Pro processor systems to other non-Intel processor-based workstations, such as those based on the SPARC*, MIPS*, PowerPC*, PA-RISC*, and Alpha* architectures. Traditionally, Intel Architecture processors have been used in personal computers running operating systems like DOS* and Windows* for business and personal productivity applications such as word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations. Workstations have been used for scientific and technical applications such as mechanical computer-aided design and analysis (MCAD), electronic computer-aided design (ECAD), scientific modeling and analysis, high performance graphics and imaging, and other computationally intensive tasks. Workstations often include two-dimensional and three- dimensional graphics accelerators. The distinction between a personal computer and a workstation has been based on processor performance, operating system features, graphics capabilities, and applications. Today, that distinction is being blurred by the availability of high performance Pentium Pro processors that are being used in workstation and server products from a variety of vendors. The widespread adoption of PCI as a high speed peripheral interconnect has allowed workstation-class graphics accelerators to be attached to Pentium and Pentium Pro processor-based systems. The availability of UNIX*, Microsoft Windows NT*, SCSI disks and high-speed network connectivity on the Intel architecture provides robust multitasking capabilities. The high performance of Intel processors has caused many traditional workstation applications to migrate to the Intel platform. The Pentium and Pentium Pro